You might find this hard to believe, but I don't actually know what an "affiliate link" is, and nor do I know the implications of having submitted one, assuming (as I infer from your comment) that this is one. All I did was use the bookmarklet to submit to HN the page I was looking at.
Added in edit: I've just gone to look up and read about affiliate links, but to be completely honest, I really don't have time now to try to decrypt all the crap returned to me by the Google search, and all the pages high on the marketing Ginger Factor. Suffice to say I'm clueless about web marketing/tracking crap, and I really do not have the time now to learn about stuff that's so foreign to me.
Should I delete this and resubmit it? It's possible to edit the title, but not the URL, and I can't add any text to the title because of length restrictions.
What would you propose?
Added in further edit: I've submitted a version without the tracking code - I just hope people see that one so I get the comments I was looking for. Thanks for the responses.
oh, I see. Well, whomever linked you to the page had a referral link attached. Reddit has the problem quite frequently, people will submit referral links under the guise of the content being "interesting" or having some value to users and then it becomes a game of "is this person genuine or are they looking to make money?". Ultimately it doesn't really matter that much and you're a long standing HN user (didn't notice it was you who submitted this...) so deleting it would probably be overkill, just might make a few people apprehensive about being gamed.
People share their blog entries and companies and products here all the time to make money and that's fine but I figure that's because it's transparent whereas referral links (where the person intentionally used it) are trying to make money without admitting it. "I made this product..." vs. "This product looks amazing, what do you think?" the latter is misleading when (intentional) referral links are involved, because I don't assume by default the person presenting it is in it for the money.
